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This is a terraform module that creates an email forwarder using a combination of AWS SES and Lambda running the aws-lambda-ses-forwarder NPM module.


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Introduction

This module provisions a NodeJS script as a AWS Lambda function that uses the inbound/outbound capabilities of AWS Simple Email Service (SES) to run a "serverless" email forwarding service.

Use this module instead of setting up an email server on a dedicated EC2 instance to handle email redirects. It uses AWS SES to receive email and then trigger a Lambda function to process it and forward it on to the chosen destination. This script will allow forwarding emails from any sender to verified destination emails (e.g. opt-in).

Limitations

The SES service only allows sending email from verified addresses or domains. As such, it's mostly suitable for transactional emails (e.g. alerts or notifications). The incoming messages are modified to allow forwarding through SES and reflect the original sender. This script adds a Reply-To header with the original sender's email address, but the From header is changed to display the SES email address.

For example, an email sent by John Doe <jonh@example.com> to hello@example.com will be transformed to:

From: John Doe at john@example.com <hello@example.com>
Reply-To: john@example.com

To override this behavior, set a verified fromEmail address (e.g., noreply@example.com) in the config object and the header will look like this.

From: John Doe <noreply@example.com>
Reply-To: john@example.com

NOTE: SES only allows receiving email sent to addresses within verified domains. For more information, see: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/verify-domains.html

Initially SES users are in a sandbox environment that has a number of limitations. See: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/limits.html

Usage

IMPORTANT: The master branch is used in source just as an example. In your code, do not pin to master because there may be breaking changes between releases. Instead pin to the release tag (e.g. ?ref=tags/x.y.z) of one of our latest releases.

For a complete example, see examples/complete.

For automated tests of the complete example using bats and Terratest (which tests and deploys the example on AWS), see test.

variable "relay_email" {
  default     = "example@example.com"
  description = "Email that used to relay from"
}

variable "forward_emails" {
  type = map(list(string))

  default = {
    "some_email@example.com"  = ["my_email@example.com"]
    "other_email@example.com" = ["my_email@example.com"]
  }

  description = "Emails forward map"
}

module "ses_lambda_forwarder" {
  source = "git::https://github.com/cloudposse/terraform-aws-ses-lambda-forwarder.git?ref=master"

  namespace  = var.namespace
  stage      = var.stage
  name       = var.name
  delimiter  = var.delimiter
  attributes = var.attributes
  tags       = var.tags

  region = var.region
  domain = var.domain

  relay_email    = var.relay_email
  forward_emails = var.forward_emails
}

Makefile Targets

Available targets:

  help                                Help screen
  help/all                            Display help for all targets
  help/short                          This help short screen
  lint                                Lint terraform code

Inputs

Name Description Type Default Required
artifact_filename Artifact filename string lambda.zip no
artifact_url URL template for the remote artifact string https://artifacts.cloudposse.com/$$${module_name}/$$${git_ref}/$$${filename} no
attributes Additional attributes (e.g. 1) list(string) <list> no
delimiter Delimiter to be used between namespace, stage, name and attributes string - no
domain Root domain name string - yes
forward_emails Map of forward emails map(list(string)) <map> no
lambda_runtime Lambda runtime string nodejs8.10 no
name Application or solution name (e.g. app) string ses no
namespace Namespace (e.g. cp or cloudposse) string `` no
region AWS Region the SES should reside in string - yes
relay_email Email that used to relay from string - yes
spf DNS SPF record value string v=spf1 include:amazonses.com -all no
stage Stage (e.g. prod, dev, staging) string `` no
tags Additional tags (e.g. map(BusinessUnit,XYZ) map(string) <map> no

Outputs

Name Description
artifact_base64sha256 Base64 encoded SHA256 hash of the artifact file
artifact_file Full path to the locally downloaded artifact
artifact_git_ref Git commit hash corresponding to the artifact
artifact_url URL corresponding to the artifact
lambda_function_arn Lamnda Function ARN
lambda_function_source_code_size The size in bytes of the Lambda Function .zip file
lambda_function_version Latest published version of the Lambda Function
lambda_iam_policy_arn Lamnda IAM Policy ARN
lambda_iam_policy_id Lamnda IAM Policy ID
lambda_iam_policy_name Lamnda IAM Policy name
s3_bucket_arn Lamnda IAM Policy ARN
s3_bucket_domain_name Lamnda IAM Policy ARN
s3_bucket_id Lamnda IAM Policy name
ses_domain_identity_arn The ARN of the domain identity
ses_domain_identity_verification_arn The ARN of the domain identity
ses_receipt_rule_name The name of the SES receipt rule
ses_receipt_rule_set_name The name of the SES receipt rule set

References

For additional context, refer to some of these links.

  • aws-lambda-ses-forwarder - A Node.js script for AWS Lambda that uses the inbound/outbound capabilities of AWS Simple Email Service (SES) to run a "serverless" email forwarding service.

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